Chapter 700: Forcing a Confession
"Damn... What kind of sinister power does this human have... I can't move at all..." Little Star exclaimed in a mix of shock and anger, but it was helpless and could only say, "Don't just do something, if there's something you want to know, just ask..."
Lin Shen continued to ignore it, filing away, focused and undistracted, as if he would never stop until he sawed open the snail shell.
Under someone's roof, one has no choice but to bow down. Although Little Star wanted nothing more than to grind Lin Shen into dust, it had no choice but to say, "The treasure box that transports to Secret God Star is in the blue room to the left, you've seen it, just go fetch it yourself."
Lin Xue finally stopped his hand, but he didn't go to the room to fetch the treasure box. Instead, he asked, "What exactly is this Secret God Star?"
"How would I know what that is... Stop... stop..." Little Star didn't finish speaking before it found Lin Shen resuming his filing.
Seeing that Lin Shen ignored it, Little Star could only grind its teeth in agitation and say, "All I know is the treasure box can transport to Secret God Star, and that there are all sorts of strange things on Secret God Star. But where Secret God Star came from and where those things on it came from, I truly don't know."
"Who are you, and why are you here? And where did this pink sphere come from?" Lin Shen stopped his hand, not hurrying to ask how to leave Secret God Star; instead, he wanted to first understand Little Star's origins.
Little Star hesitated for a moment, and Lin Shen began filing its snail shell again.
Little Star was so mad its brains were nearly exploding, but it had no choice and could only suppress its anger and say, "I'm like you, a victim too. I was captured and brought here to guard this Pink Star..."
Lin Shen didn't believe Little Star's words at all and continued to file fiercely.
"Everything I've said is true, the one who captured me is The Ancient Realm King. I really don't know what the origins of Pink Star are. The Ancient Realm King only tasked me with watching over this planet, to prevent any creature from discovering Pink Star's existence. If anyone arrived here, I was to eliminate them at all costs and ensure Pink Star's secrets were not leaked, especially to humans..." Little Star urgently cried out.
"Why can't humans discover the existence of Pink Star?" Lin Shen wondered in his heart. It seemed The Ancient Realm King had known of humanity's existence a long time ago, suggesting he had been to the Human Mother Planet long before.
"How should I know? The Ancient Realm King simply ordered it so, he didn't explain why." Little Star, seeing Lin Shen about to act again, hurriedly said, "I truly don't know, killing me won't help, I'm just following The Ancient Realm King's orders. If you don't believe me, you can check the first red room on the right, there's a work schedule in there that lists everything I'm supposed to do. You'll see I'm not lying."
"Have you been to that what's-it-called Secret God Star? Which way did you come out?" Lin Shen didn't go to the red house, continuing to ask instead.
"The same as you, of course. There's only that one way out of Secret God Star." Little Star could only answer.
After hearing this, Lin Shen pressed the Scrap Sword against the snail shell, and Little Star quickly said, "You exit via the Jade Level and then through the gate of Celestial Court. The Ancient Realm King took me there, saying it was the only way out. As for whether there are other ways, I really don't know."
Lin Shen asked Little Star many questions and gradually unearthed some information about Pink Star and Secret God Star from Little Star's mouth.
Little Star didn't know whether Pink Star had always been there or if it had been brought there later.
When The Ancient Realm King captured Little Star, Pink Star was already there.
The Ancient Realm King used some method on Little Star, forcing it to stay there and guard Pink Star.
But exactly what method The Ancient Realm King used, Little Star stubbornly refused to say. Explore more adventures at My Virtual Library Empire
The secrets that Little Star knew were slowly extracted by Lin Shen, including its ability to control the Dream Beast with a whistle.
The whistle and the Dream Beast were both left behind by The Ancient Realm King. In the Sea of Blood, aside from the Dream Beast, there were also several Undying Creatures lurking.
But those Undying Creatures, even Little Star had no power over them. If anyone dared to try crossing the Sea of Blood, those terrifying Undying Creatures would act.
The only creature Little Star could control was the Dream Beast.
If it weren't for the fear that Lin Shen and Wei Wufu might escape, it wouldn't have ordered the Dream Beast to capture them and bring them back.
Of course, the Dream Beast could have killed Lin Shen and Wei Wufu right then and there, but Little Star had found them to be merely at the Ascension Level and, feeling too lonely, had thought to bring them both to Pink Star to provide some entertainment for itself.
If it had known it would come to this, it definitely wouldn't have allowed Lin Shen to come to Pink Star alive.
The more Lin Shen asked, the colder his heart felt; if the only path was the Jade Level, wouldn't Wei Wufu be trapped inside forever?
Unless Wei Wufu was willing to undergo Nirvana on Secret God Star and then rely on the Nirvana Body to ascend the Jade Level, attempting to open the gates of Celestial Court, he would be trapped there forever.
No matter how Lin Shen tried to coerce information out of Little Star, he could not extract any more details regarding Secret God Star.
Little Star didn't even know that there were actually two Secret God Stars.
One was the Secret God Star you're transported to through the magic box, and the other was the Secret God Star you're sent to through the coordinates of Gourd Mountain or a mechanical watch.
During the day, the two Secret God Stars were basically indistinguishable, with the only difference being whether or not the Golden Buddha Temple was there.
The difference at night was mainly the appearance of the gates of Celestial Court.
The Golden Buddha Temple and the gates of Celestial Court, these two landmark locations, were the distinctions between the two Secret God Stars.
And both Secret God Stars were connected to The Ancient Realm King; probably only The Ancient Realm King could clarify what exactly was going on.
"Little Star, this skill of mine, you'll never be able to break free from. If anything happens to me, you'll just be frozen in place for life. I'm entering the red house now, so think it over carefully yourself," said Lin Shen, holding onto Little Star and walking toward the red house.
"Wait!" Just as Lin Shen was about to push open the door, Little Star suddenly called out to stop him.
"Let's hear it then," Lin Shen said, looking at the Little Star in his hand.
"Let's make a deal. You release me, and I'll let you go back alive," Little Star proposed.
"I want to live, but I don't need you," said Lin Shen, leaving the red house and heading towards another house before attempting to push open the door.
"Once you enter this house, you won't be able to leave," Little Star suddenly spoke up again.
But Lin Shen didn't pay attention to it and directly pushed the door open and entered. It had been in this very room that Little Star had taken out the magic box to give to them as a gift, sending them to Secret God Star.
Inside the room, Lin Shen saw that it looked like a human's dwelling, with a bed and a table, and the walls adorned with art photos – only the subjects of these photos were not people, but various musical instruments.
Next to the photos hung a guitar and in the corner of the room were drum sets, seeming to belong to someone who loved music deeply.
But this person couldn't be Little Star; the furniture here was clearly meant for creatures with the human form, not for a snail.
On the table, Lin Shen saw the box, and despite Little Star's objections, he took it and opened it while still holding onto the snail.
"No... You're going to get people killed..." Amidst Little Star's screams, the box shone brightly, and it transported a man and a snail to Secret God Star.